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With a flagship Mars rover mission launched, NASA's planetary science division is turning its attention to a pair of asteroid missions set to launch next year. SpaceNews

SpaceX reiterates its claim made in a May 2019 protest that the Air Force harmed the company by denying it a Launch Service Agreement award. SpaceNews

Competitors in SpaceNet 7 the Multi-Temporal Urban Development Challenge will have two months starting August 31st to devise change-detection algorithms to track building construction over time. SpaceNews

A private team led by Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company Blue Origin has delivered a mock-up of its crewed moon lander to NASA for testing.

The Expedition 63 crew has turned its attention toward space science and lab maintenance after releasing a Japanese cargo craft from the International Space Station on Tuesday....

Space Force Vice Commander Thompson said the service wants to create a "21st century talent management and human capital strategy." SpaceNews

Earth-orbiting satellites have spotted the wildfires ripping through Northern California.

A report commissioned by Congress agreed with the administration that the Commerce Department is the best agency to handle civil space traffic management (STM) responsibilities. SpaceNews

Small satellite rideshare organizer Spaceflight is preparing to launch a series of progressively upgraded Sherpa orbital transfer vehicles that will act as smallsat deployers, space tugs and platforms for hosted payloads...

"The Right Stuff," National Geographic's new scripted series about America's first astronauts, is set to blast off on Oct. 9 on the Disney+ streaming service.

The Japanese space startup ispace is launching a new "Blueprint Moon" data analysis service on top of its plans for private lunar landings after raising $28 million in new investments.

NASA is tracking down the source of a minor air leak on the International Space Station, the agency said today (Aug. 20).

Fleet operator SES on Aug. 20 said it selected SpaceX to launch four recently ordered O3b mPower broadband satellites. SpaceNews

While humans on Earth prepare for hurricane season, satellites in orbit are making their own preparations.

The first American flag to be flown into space and return to Earth intact did so 60 years ago this month -- nine months earlier than another flag said to hold the same distinction.

Imagine that the size of a bacterium is measured from a distance of about 4500 light-years. This would be an incredible measurement, considering that a bacterium is so small that a microscope is required to see it, and w...

The Blue Origin-led team that is one of three working on lunar lander concepts for NASA's Artemis program has delivered a full-sized mockup of that lander to the agency for testing by engineers and astronauts. SpaceNews

A new technique may prove to be a powerful tool in the battle to mitigate space debris. The post First Laser Space Debris Detection Made… in Daylight appeared first on Universe Today.

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The last-ever Japanese HTV International Space Station resupply ship burned up in Earth's atmosphere today (Aug. 20).

Though 2020 QG survived its recent encounter with Earth, the rock's path through space was altered significantly.

Amazon has official approval to deploy a new satellite constellation for broadband service.